Kubla Khan

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  • Kubla Khan
  • Themes
    • Versions of Reality
    • Man and the Natural World
    • Time
  • Definitions:
    • Kubla Khan
      • Grandson of Genghis Khan
      • Xandu
        • the outside world
        • tumult
          • a confusing noise
          • Abyssinian
            • a European
            • Mount Abora
              • a mythical place mentioned in 'Milton's Paradise Lost'
  • Opium has an exotic/transgressive tang to a modern reader, but it was the pain-killer. He didn't take opium to provoke a dream vision.
  • "Famous and mysterious poem."
  • Coleridge focuses on the architecture and the loveliness of its garden.
  • "A stately pleasure-dome decree"
  • "The sacred river"
  • "With walls and towers were girdled round: // And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, // Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree"
  • "that deep romantic chasm […] A savage place!"
  • "Ancestral voices prophesying war!"
  • "A damsel with a dulcimer"

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